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How popular is the baby name Kimberley in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, see baby names similar to Kimberley and check out all the blog posts that mention the name Kimberley.

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A couple of years ago, English actor James Corden persuaded former Beatle Paul McCartney to be in a TV sketch. How? Baby name.

Both men were on the The Graham Norton Show recently, and this is how Corden told the tale:

I laid it on very thick, telling him, “people won’t die if you do our sketch.” It makes it very difficult for people to say no. He said, “bloody hell, James, I’ve heard some groveling in my time.” I then said, “that’s nothing — if you’d said no, I was going to say I would name my unborn child after you.” To which he said, “if you promise to do that, I’ll do the sketch.” And that’s why my son is called Max McCartney Kimberley Corden.

Max was born in March of 2011, right around the time the sketch aired. (It was part of Red Nose Day 2011, a telethon organised by Comic Relief.)

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the two wars were fought in South Africa between the British and the Boers. During the Second Boer War (1899–1902), certain patriotic London parents gave their children names “commemorative of our great generals and victories in South Africa.” Here are some examples:

Name

Inspiration

James Albert Redvers KirbyAudrey Buller Lily Wallace

Gen. Redvers Henry Buller

Hector Macdonald Matthew

Major-Gen. Hector MacDonald

Frank Kimberley Stuckey

Siege of Kimberley

Thomas Elands Laagte Wilks

Battle of Elandslaagte

Margaret Ellen Ladysmith Angram

Relief of Ladysmith

Colenso Stuart Dudley Middleton

Battle of Colenso

James Spion Kop Skinner

Battle of Spion Kop

Babies were also named Frere (for Bartle Frere), Glencoe (for the Battle of Glencoe), Kitchener (for Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener), Mafeking (for the Siege of Mafeking), Pretoria, and Tugela (for the Battle of the Tugela Heights).

And, oddly enough, a few London babies were named Kruger for Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic.